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Poem by William Ernest Henley


Echoes. 44. If It Should Come to Be


If it should come to be,
This proof of you and me,
      This type and sign
Of hours that smiled and shone,
And yet seemed dead and gone
      As old-world wine:

Of Them Within the Gate
Ask we no richer fate,
      No boon above,
For girl child or for boy,
My gift of life and joy,
      Your gift of love.



William Ernest Henley


William Ernest Henley's other poems:
  1. Attadale, West Highlands
  2. In Hospital. 12. Etching
  3. Envoy
  4. Echoes. 17. The Sands Are Alive with Sunshine
  5. Rhymes and Rhythms. 23. Here They Trysted, Here They Strayed


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